I am an enthusiastic user of VL 5.8 SOHO. I have been using successively RC1, 2, and 3,and was eager to install VL 5.8 SOHO final. I could do it this afternoon, and I immediatelyfaced the following new problem:

At first boot (in graphic mode), the complete screen picture is shifted 3 cm left, with ablack vertical bar at the right side; the K menu icon, pushed outside of the screen, is notaccessible, as well as the left-side column of icons of the desktop, etc...

I found a PROVISIONAL cure by opening a console (as an ordinary user) and typingthe command "kcontrol": the KDE control center opens a window. Then, clicking onperipherals > display I discovered that the screen size was (wrongly) 1400x1050,in place of the 1280x1024 that I choose during the installation (hence: this is a new bugto correct in the installation program, since the previous versions of VL5.8 did notsuffer this symptom). Selecting 1280x1024 gives back a normal screen aspect.

The problem is that this has to be done again at each reboot ! (Even though I marked the square "apply settings on KDE startup")

You'll need to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as the root user. Find the section of the file that gets into monitor depths and add "1280x1024" with the quotes to the beginning of the resolution lists for each of the bit depths listed in the file.

Actually I found no xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, but xorg.conf.ati and xorg.conf-vesa.

I could modify xorg.conf-vesa according to your messages, but, when rebooting,the symptom was still there.

Then I created a copy of this modified xorg.conf-vesa under the simpler namexorg.conf: then at boot, my screen went black, except a message from its hardware"frequency too high".

I deduce that, to be taken into account, the correct name of the file must be xorg.conf(which was obvious in your message) but that the file content is still inadequate.I tried to modify it (specify vertical and horizontal frequencies) without success.

Finally I solved the problem by using a copy the xorg.conf of my RC3 version of VL5.8from my main hard disk (I am testing VL5.8-SOHO-final on an auxiliary hard disk). This is abominably brutal, but everything works now perfectly ! (so far)

It would be interesting to localize which exact detail needs to be modified, butI prefer going on exploring the new VL5.8 !

In-between, I found out what was wrong: I inadvertedly skipped some stageduring the install, when selecting the ati driver, etc...

To check this, I did a new install carefully, and no problem at all now withthe display ! So there is no bug to correct, as I wrote wrongly before, just the installer which is perhaps not very clear at that stage.

Everything seems to work smooth now. Congratulations, and thanks again to all the VL team: this is a great achievement indeed !